Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael:
Playlist
from December 12, 2014

Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:06pm
Doug Schulkind:
GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael will be back live on the stream this coming Wednesday morning, 9-10am (ET). He'll be filling in for Jeff Golick's show The Magic Hour!!

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:12pm
Pedro G.:
Sorry I forgot to listen live to last week's show, Uncle Mike. Thanksgiving disrupted my Friday rituals. I caught up on the archives Sunday night. It was different yet still comforting.

Fri. 12/12/14 12:22pm
chromaphone:
I finally listened to the Rockpile cd and really don't care for the way it is produced but it prompted me to find some pretty great live recordings of that band on the net.

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:23pm
βrian:
@PS Simon: So what does he mean by "Jockey full of bourbon?"

Fri. 12/12/14 12:28pm
johnk77:
@um stream sounds great
cannot hear any compression created artifacts
@chromaphone
rockpile did make
some great live recordings
including possibly a king biscuit hour
i must check my cassette archives
@mikeeast
everything work out
at the jobsite?

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:28pm
pacific standard simon:
Although the author does point out that, in some ways, Tom is more Bob Dylan than Bob Dylan.

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:29pm
Brian in UK:
The Jordanaires singing backup would make that Merle perfect.

Fri. 12/12/14 12:29pm
ndbob:
one of Merle's best there - and now one of the best sixties songs

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:29pm
Uncle Michael:
Tom didn't really get great until he became Van Vleit.

Fri. 12/12/14 12:30pm
chromaphone:
I wonder just how many great albums were destroyed by 80s production approaches.

Fri. 12/12/14 12:41pm
johnk77:
@mikeeast lot of work last night
surprisingly luis was helpful
regarding tom waits
biff dawes told me at a
tom waits gig in the eighties
that tom had previously told biff
that tom found most producers
and studio engineers
not able to grok what tom wanted
and that is why he used biff
to engineer in the studio
and sometimes at his then
quite rare live gigs

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:42pm
pacific standard simon:
My introduction to Tom Waits was seeing him open for Frank Zappa in early '74 -- in between his first two records. The book says that tour was a nightmare for him, because of all the impatient fans yelling for "Zappa!!!"

Fri. 12/12/14 12:47pm
chromaphone:
From wiki: "In 1939, Alvino Rey, amateur radio operator W6UK, used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound. The mic, originally developed for military pilot communications, was placed on the throat of Rey's wife Luise King (one of The King Sisters), who stood behind a curtain and mouthed the words, along with the guitar lines. The novel-sounding combination was called "Singing Guitar", and employed on stage and in the movie Jam Session, as a "novelty" attraction, but was not developed further.

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:47pm
efd:
so busy at work that it took me 45 minutes to realize I was listening to Bryce! Greetings UM and all.

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Fri. 12/12/14 12:48pm
Lane Steelpicker:
I am gonna HAVE to listen to this tomorrow. I tuned in late and missed stuff.

Perhaps you saw the sad photojournalism news about Michel du Cile of the Washington Post. Died of heart failure while covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia. I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but many of my friends in the biz are heartbroken. He was one of our best.

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:18pm
Cecile:
Make turketta. Either flatten the breast and fill it with herbs and garlic, or just stick garlic cloves into slits on the breast.

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:19pm
Cecile:
brown, and then cook in the crockpot with chicken stock and a little wine.

many recipes on the Web.

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:19pm
pacific standard simon:
I'm big on poaching chicken breast in brine, then finishing on a grill pan under the broiler. Maybe it would work for turkey?

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:19pm
Uncle Michael:
I like the idea of flattening it, filling it and rolling it.

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:19pm
Lane Steelpicker:
Roast it simple. Some herbs, a few spices. Root veggies in the pan. Like a chicken. Carrots, onions, maybe parsnips or rutabaga in the pan. That's the vote of the steel picker.

Then I like to make a compound butter mixing together a stick of softened butter, salt (unless the butter is saltened), something sweet like honey or maple syrup and some chopped herbs of your choice (not rosemary though, too overpowering). Take the mixture, roll it like a joint in plastic wrap, chill, then slice into disks and put under the skin before roasting. I like to roast in a pan on top of sliced onions, garlic, a Parmiggiano Reggiano cheese rind if you have one and a little water so you get a nice jus while you roast.

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:23pm
Cecile:
you can put it in a crockpot. And the flattening always takes less time than you think, if it's fully thawed.

My old MO used to be put butter with garlic and herbs under the skin. Put a lemon and an onion in the cavity. Start hot with foil on the breast. Cook it hot for 15 minutes. then take off the foil and turn it down to 350 and cook until it reaches temperature.

Fri. 12/12/14 1:32pm
kat330:
OK, heard the turkey breast request: Here's what I do (and I do them rather frequently as one of our faves).
Gently pull up skin to separate from flesh but not break skin. Place under skin in about 4 separate areas of the breast an emulsion (right term?) Emulsion can be, as an example (use what you have / get creative): Seasoned (salt/pepper) butter pats squished w/ smashed garlic clove, lemon zest and sprigs of fresh thyme, rosemary, sage, parsley. Or you can do the same with feta cheese pieces or crumbles.

Oil breast [EVOO], season lightly w/ salt and pepper. Place upside down on V-rack in shallow pan: Place on lowest oven shelf at preheated 325 degrees. Cook 20 min. Rotate breast to its side and baste w/ chicken stock and roast another 20 mins. Rotate to other side and baste and rotate every 20 min. as many times needed within total cooking time, but ending with 20 mins. breast up.

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Fri. 12/12/14 1:33pm
Lane Steelpicker:
When Maison Steel roasts a hunk o' meat, we often put a HDTR archive on, and listen as we cook and clean or garden.
Got some bulbs to inter this weekend.

Fri. 12/12/14 2:36pm
still b/p:
I'm huntin' round this damn apartment while I listen, but I can't find my damn notes and files to get my damn renewal application started for my damn health insurance, which I have just a few more damn days to damn do.

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Fri. 12/12/14 2:37pm
northguineahills:
Wow, I stopped listening to the Violent Femmes in the mid 90s, this ain't bad.

I went to have a look at Wand'rin' Star lyrics, and the the site that provided them said
"You might also enjoy
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Sun. 12/14/14 5:06pm
kat330:
Michael -- just remembered I needed to correct my hastily written "recipe": Not emulsion but compound is what I meant with the herbs+butter or herbs+feta. I knew emulsion didn't sound right, but I was trying to multitask too much at the time. Hope you had a tasty turkey however you got it done!